From: Andrew M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:35:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document expand() method of MatchObjects
X-Git-Tag: v2.0c1~108
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a90db613166e568a12621aa5448ce15eaf5c5d0;p=python

Document expand() method of MatchObjects
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libre.tex b/Doc/lib/libre.tex
index 578d9cb460..c6eca4d28f 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libre.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libre.tex
@@ -597,6 +597,15 @@ The pattern string from which the regex object was compiled.
 
 \class{MatchObject} instances support the following methods and attributes:
 
+\begin{methoddesc}[MatchObject]{expand}{template}
+ Return the string obtained by doing backslash substitution on the
+template string \var{template}, as done by the \method{sub()} method.
+Escapes such as \samp{\e n} are converted to the appropriate
+characters, and numeric backreferences (\samp{\e 1}, \samp{\e 2}) and named
+backreferences (\samp{\e g<1>}, \samp{\e g<name>}) are replaced by the contents of the
+corresponding group.
+\end{methoddesc}
+
 \begin{methoddesc}[MatchObject]{group}{\optional{group1, \moreargs}}
 Returns one or more subgroups of the match.  If there is a single
 argument, the result is a single string; if there are